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4.5/10 TV Country of origin United Kingdom Running time 30 minutes Final episode date 10 October 1981 Program creator Chesney and Wolfe | 6.7/10 IMDb Created by Chesney and Wolfe No. of episodes 6 (list of episodes) Original network ITV Network ITV | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Starring John Inman
Rula Lenska
Miriam Margolyes
Gina Maher
Joan Blackham
Christine Ozanne
Claudine Bowyer
Allan Mitchell Cast John Inman, Rula Lenska, Miriam Margolyes, Joan Blackham | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Take a letter mr jones
Take a Letter, Mr. Jones is a short-lived British sitcom starring John Inman and Rula Lenska that aired for six episodes on ITV from 5 September to 10 October 1981. It was created by Ronald Chesney and Ronald Wolfe.
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Plot
Take a Letter, Mr. Jones is a role-reversal comedy wherein Graham Jones (John Inman) works as a personal secretary to female executive Joan Warner (Rula Lenska), within a London-based multinational corporation called 8-Star. Although he ably assists her in their busy office, Graham often helps Joan with her equally hectic domestic arrangements as she is a single mother to seven-year-old daughter, Lucy. Miriam Margolyes plays Joan's excitable Italian housekeeper, Maria.
Context and afterlife
John Inman starred in Take a Letter, Mr. Jones between seasons of the BBC sitcom Are You Being Served? Take a Letter, Mr. Jones was never a ratings success (only running for six episodes), but in recent years it has been resurrected by many American PBS stations, where Are You Being Served? is also a hit. A UK repeat of the series was shown on Film24 in 2010.
In 2015 UK channel Talking Pictures TV reshowed the series.
A US VHS set of the series was released by Questar in 1995. A UK DVD of the series was released in 2009 by Simply Home Entertainment.